Trump’s indictment has turned every American voter into a juror

TO STORE ALL the accusations against Donald Trump would require a new wing of the Library of Congress. There are the allegations made against him before he became president, some of which were false. Then there are the ones from his four years in the White House, which resulted in two impeachments. Since leaving office, he has become the first former president to be indicted on criminal charges. There is the Manhattan case, which turns on falsifying business records, the Mar-a-Lago case, which concerns the handling of classified documents, and a looming case in Fulton County, Georgia, which is about an attempt to overturn the state’s election result. You may recall that Mr Trump also lost a defamation case against a woman who accused him of sexual assault.

None of these compares to the latest indictment, issued by the prosecutor, Jack Smith, on August 1st. If proven, it will be the thing that Mr Trump is remembered for. Lincoln freed the slaves, Reagan won the cold war, Trump went to prison for trying to steal an election.